On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:00:32 -0700 (PDT), "dkw12002@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<dkw12002@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Cooking dried beans, lentils, steel-cut oats, polenta, or other foods
>that require a longer time to cook are excellent choices for solar
>ovens. Solar ovens like the Cookit, made essentially free from
>cardboard and aluminum foil do the job, getting the heat out of the
>house. This saves on AC as well since you aren't heating up your home
>inside.
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>Two more things I like to do is keep my water heater temp. low....just
>high enough to take a warm shower, but not hot enough to rinse dishes
>properly. I wash clothes in cold water. To rinse dishes in hot water,
>just heat the water in a black teapot using a solar cooker. The other
>obvious thing to do is dry clothes outside. While we should eat every
>day, it is possible to prepare for a predicted rainy day...overcast,
>at any rate, by making larger quantities of food, then nuking it to
>reheat it on the rainy day. I have 8 solar cookers including 5 Cookit
>panel cookers and a parabolic cooker (all homemade from cardboard and
>foil) and 2 Global Sun Ovens, which are purchased hot-box type cookers
>which allow for faster cooking or cooking on marginal days, as well as
>preheating. With a bunch of cookers all going, it's a great way to
>meet your neighbors too who stop to find out what your doing. I always
>tell them I'm "sun wor****pping". Solar cooking has come a long way
>since the early days of sun tea. dkw
Cant seem to find them here in Dorset?
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